The premiere of the newest Star Trek film is still five months away, but Trekkie fever is already sweeping Japan.

Hundreds of fans turned out at Narita Airport to greet stars Chris Pine and Dominic Cumberbatch on Monday as they arrived in Tokyo to promote the long-awaited sequel Star Trek: Into the Darkness.

British actor Cumberbatch, who plays the villain in the latest installment, received his first taste of Star Trek fan's devotion as he stepped off the 12 hour flight from the UK.

Trekkie fever: Hordes of fans arrive to greet the actors at Narita Airport

Despite looking slightly bleary-eyed after the long flight, Benedict, 36, shook hand with the waiting crowds and happily obliged to autograph request.

The Sherlock star looked dapper in a patterned scarf and long black coat as he posed for photos with a mass of screaming Japanese female fans, before switching into a slick Spencer Hart suit for a photocall later in the day.

Hours earlier his co-star, Hollywood
actor Chris Pine who plays Captain Kirk, was also met with a warm
welcome off is his flight from Los Angeles.

Bemused: Cumberbatch greets the Trekkies with bleary eyed bemusement after a long flight

The ladies love him: A huge amount of Japanese women turned out for the Sherlock actor

Appearing fresh faced and beaming from his long flight, the star looked every inch the Hollywood star as he waved to his fans.

Chris
donned a white T-shirt and jeans look with a dapper black coat as he
made his way through Narita International Airport on Monday.

The actor was doing double duty as he was also promoting his 3D animated feature Rise of the Guardians.

That's a warm welcome! Chris Pine was greeted by fans as he arrived in Tokyo on Monday

Fresh faced star: Despite just getting off a long flight, the star happily chatted to his fans and signed autographs

The stars later joined director
J.J.Abrams in treating fans to a first look at the newly-released poster
for the highly-anticipated space flick.

The image, which has been compared to
the The Dark Knight Rises poster, sees a man, believed to be
Cumberbatch's new villainous character. standing tall atop a stack of
rubble in city ruins.

The highly anticipated film also
stars Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho and Simon Pegg and will no doubt delight
the many Trekkies all over the world.

Boldly going where no men have gone before: Benedict Cumberbatch, J.J.Adams and Chris Pine unveil the new poster to their Japanese fans

The story will follow the time when the
crew of the Enterprise is called back home and they find that an
unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has
detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a
state of crisis.

But fans will have to wait until next week to find more when nine minutes of the film
will play before Imax 3D screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey when it opens on December 14.

Non-Imax screenings of The Hobbit
will run the official Into Darkness trailer.

Into the Darkness: The stars attended a photo call with director J.J. Abrams